The Brooklyn girl accused of leaving a brick scrawled with a swastika and the phrase “Nazi” on a parked Tesla is a super-woke household therapist who was concerned in prison justice diversion applications — and blamed Elon Musk for her heinous actions as she was taken into custody.
Natasha Cohen was launched on her personal recognizance following her arraignment on hate-crime costs Saturday evening, in accordance with prosecutors.
Cohen, 46, has a non-public observe, working with kids, adolescents and their households for greater than twenty years.
She has superior coaching in maternal psychological well being, in accordance with an internet profile, and presently sells totally different remedy worksheets and assets on-line for folks of kids with ADHD, physique dysmorphia points, and nervousness.
In 2015, she additionally helped younger offenders as a part of the Kings County Re-Entry Activity Drive, working in tandem with the Bureau of Youth Diversion and Initiatives to maintain criminals out of jail.
A number of of Cohen’s social media posts are essential of President Trump. Just lately, she posted a meme claiming President’s Day was canceled “till we get an actual one.” The day after Trump’s victory, she posted a photograph of a memorial candle.
Cops have alleged Cohen not solely left the brick on the windshield of a Cybertruck parked on Ditmas Avenue, in what is basically a Jewish neighborhood, however she additionally dumped a bag of trash on the automotive.
Surveillance cameras caught Cohen within the act, police stated.
“Each time I see these automobiles, I see Elon Musk saluting the nation as a Nazi,” Cohen informed police on the time of her April 12 arrest, in accordance with a replica of the prison grievance, obtained by The Publish.
“I made a mistake as a result of I’m mainly residing in terror daily that the nation is popping into Nazi Germany,” Cohen continued, in accordance with cops. “I’m actually terrified as a result of Elon was unelected and so they’re deporting migrants with out a trial.”
Cohen’s neighbors had been shocked by the allegations.
“That’s loopy,” stated one, asking to stay nameless. “I really feel just like the world wants much less of that crap proper now.”
Mentioned one other neighbor: “Who does one thing like that?”
Cohen, who additionally goes by Carrie, was noticed outdoors her luxurious Kensington condominium constructing on Tuesday, carrying sun shades and an outsized hoodie.
She tried ducking Publish cameras as she and her teen son shuffled contained in the constructing — the place flats are priced between $780,000 and $1.1 million and have spacious patios and personal backyards.
Cohen would solely say, “No remark” as a Publish reporter approached her.
Cohen’s alleged crimes are the most recent in a spate of assaults focusing on Tesla house owners and dealerships throughout the nation, within the wake of the Musk-led Division of Authorities Effectivity’s pledge to establish and stamp out waste on the federal degree.
On March 27, two vandals had been caught on video overtly carving a swastika and the phrase “Nazis” on the facet of a Cybertruck parked on Monroe Road in Mattress-Stuy. No arrests have been made in that incident.
